Improving the quality of education challenge and opportunity final report

• Main Author: Newfoundland. Task Force on Education
• Other Authors: Crocker, Robert K. (Robert Kirby), Riggs, Frank T.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: [Task Force on Education?] 1979
• Subjects: Educational planning > Newfoundland and Labrador; Education > Aims and objectives > Newfoundland and Labrador; Teachers > Supply and demand > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/64399

Improving the quality of education challenge and opportunity, April 25, 1979 Letter of transmittal -- Summary of recommendations -- The task. Declining school enrolments: problem or opportunity? -- Terms of reference of the task force -- Scope of the study -- Limitations of the study -- Issues on the management of decline -- Enrolment decline and educational quality -- Public views. Public hearings. Statement of goals -- School programs -- Special education: (educable and trainable mentally retarded) -- Specialists -- Teacher allocation and administration -- Inservice education -- Teacher education -- Grant allocation -- Transportation -- Community use of schools -- General observations -- Public opinion questionnaire -- Aims and priorities in education. Aims of education. Intellectual development -- Moral/religious development -- Social/cultural development -- Physical development -- Equality of opportunity -- Priorities: the limits of public education -- References -- Provincial and district enrolment projections. Methods and data sources -- Provincial trends -- District projections -- Sources of error -- Uses of the projections -- The distribution of educational resources. Total provincial expenditures -- Components of educational expenditure -- Teacher salaries -- Comparative educational expenditures -- Ability to pay -- School district expenditures -- Summary and recommendations -- Productivity of the educational system. Educational achievement. Standards testing program: general trends -- Differences between districts -- School, teacher and community variables -- Public examinations -- School retention. Characteristics of the high school dropout -- School consolidation. Cost effectiveness -- Teacher qualifications -- Program offerings -- Transportation -- Summary and recommendations. Achievement -- Retention -- School consolidation -- References -- School programs. Existing school programs. The primary and elementary school curriculum -- The secondary school curriculum -- Special problems of coastal ...